Month: August 2014

  • Lobbying for a ‘MENA’ category on U.S. Census USA Today 2014-08-13 Teresa Wiltz, Pew/Stateline Staff Writer For many Americans, checking the right box on the U.S. Census form is a reflexive gesture, whether it’s marking “black,” “white,” “Hispanic,” “Asian,” “American Indian” — or all of the above. But for Americans of Middle Eastern and North…

  • In a Novelist’s World, You Choose Your Race The New York Times 2014-08-11 Felicia R. Lee In the weak light of a February afternoon, Kelly Thorndike has a strange chance encounter in a Baltimore parking lot with Martin Lipkin, an old friend from high school. But time has brought a big change. The Martin that…

  • Is Race Plastic? My Trip Into the ‘Ethnic Plastic Surgery’ Minefield New York Magazine 2014-07-27 Maureen O’Connor “You’ve got some nice Caucasian features,” Dr. Edmund Kwan says, inspecting my face at his Upper East Side plastic-surgery practice, where the waiting room includes an ottoman larger than my kitchen table. “You’re half-Asian mixed with what?” Chinese…

  • The De(con)struction of Black/White Binaries: Critiques of Passing in Charles Waddell Chesnutt’s “The Wife of His Youth” and Other Stories of the Color Line Callaloo Volume 37, Number 3, Summer 2014 pages 676-691 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2014.0106 Tanfer Emin Tunç, Professor of American Culture and Literature Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey When asked to elaborate on the “Negro…

  • Northern Ireland’s most (un)wanted Media Diversified 2014-07-28 Jayne Olorunda Northern Ireland’s capital, Belfast has had many songs written about it. The lyrics of one Belfast song resonates in my ear as I think of the reputation the city now has. The lyrics of the song always stood out to me, but now they are more…

  • Please pass me the skin coloured crayon! Semantics, socialisation, and folk models of race in contemporary Europe Language Sciences Available online: 2014-08-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2014.07.011 Martina Zimmermann Institute of Multilingualism University of Fribourg, University of Teacher Education, Fribourg, Switzerland Carsten Levisen Department of Aesthetics and Communication Aarhus University, Denmark þórhalla Guðmundsdóttir Beck University of Iceland, Háskóli…

  • Modern Diversity May Prompt US Census Bureau to Seek Better Classification of Hispanics’ Race Latin Post 2014-07-29 Nicole Akoukou Thompson Modernizing data and research methods, as well as offering clear depictions of diversity in the nation’s population, are prominent objectives of the United States Census Bureau. However, the government agency has often missed its mark.…

  • Skewing the Data: Mixed-Race Identity & the Problem of Counting for Race Lucia Lorenzi: the body politic: musings and meanderings 2014-04-13 Lucia Lorenzi University of British Columbia A few weeks ago, I attended a panel hosted by the Institute for Gender, Race, and Sexuality at the University of British Columbia, entitled “CWILA and the Problem…

  • The Lived Experience of Mixed-Race Identity University of Edinburgh 2013 Jessica Pons This study shows a phenomenological account of the mixed-race lived experience. Previous research focused on mixed-race White/Black individuals and mainly consisted of American studies. For this study, six British young adults were interviewed. The participants self identified as mixed-race, all had one Black…

  • A phenomenological study of racial identity development of black-white mixed-race children in the United States Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas 2013 142 pages ISBN: 9781303661433 ProQuest Document ID: 1496772753 Cherly Gary-Furdge, Ph.D This study examines how black-white mixed-race children develop their racial identity and how black-white parents of mixed-race children help their children with developing…